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Working together for a safer community the Australian context. Inspector Doug Hocking Major Event Planning and State Emergency Response Coordination Units - Victoria Police. Deputy Emergency Response Officer . DERO. Presentation Overview. Australian Incidents Shootings in perspective

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Protocols to remove high threat individuals from campus before they execute their plan. ( Intervention Orders Possible )

Promote safety awareness through a range of modalities to ensure institutional and personal commitment to public safety from all those in the organisation. Security Technology

Provide a special response to victims of crime, and in particular, crimes against women.

AUSTRALIAN CONTEXTACTIONS

University Focus

Has been and remains on the radar of most Australian Universities.

A university that is perceived as safe may have a market edge in attracting overseas students.

Crisis/Incident Management Teams are now more common subject to the support of Senior Executives

NEWS

NATIONAL EMERGENCY WARNING SYSTEM (NEWS)

One of a number of systems.

Telephony based to landline and mobile phone street addresses.

Starts 1st of December ( Phase 1)

July 2010 (Phase 2)

Firearm Law

Section 183 of Firearms Act 1996 – immunity civil or criminal liability for registered medical practitioners, registered nurses and registered psychologists who notify Police that they believe that a person is not a fit or proper person to carry, possess or use a firearm.

Mental Health Act

An exemption under sections 120A(3)(l) and 120A(3A) has been granted by the Minister for Health to allow the release of information to Victoria Police about people who are unfit to have a firearm. It replaces the previous exemption of 1 November 1996. The existing legal protection for mental health practitioners has been extended to unregistered psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists who notify Police that they believe that a person is unfit to have a firearm.

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Northern Illinois University – Post VA Tech Reports

The Northern Illinois University shooting place on February 14, 2008, during which a gunman shot multiple people on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, United States, killing six and wounding eighteen.